The Social Reckoning is a thriller by Aaron Sorkin that explores Facebook's impact and the Facebook Files scandal.
The film is a companion piece to The Social Network, focusing on Facebook's societal impact.
It uses Frances Haugen's story to highlight Facebook's focus on growth over societal concerns.
The film lacks the energy of The Social Network and focuses on media-tech friction.
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When David Fincher's The Social Network premiered in 2010, many people still thought of Mark Zuckerberg as a genius who had revolutionized the world by creating Facebook. Writer Aaron Sorkin's script was critical of Zuckerberg's character and his ruthless approach to doing business, but it also helped mythologize the co-founder at a time when the general public was much more enchanted by Silicon Valley. When Zuckerberg said in 2014 that he'd been hurt by the film's depiction of him, Fincher said he was "sorry that it did" and admitted that he "wouldn't want a movie made about the things I did when I was 19 years old," either. Fincher's apolo …
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